Jackson-Jones County IA Archives News.....Canton Dam March 25, 1886
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Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa March 25, 1886
Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, March 25, 1886

Canton Dam

The Maquoketa River at Canton is now unusually high. On Sunday, March 14th, the
ice went out of the pond without doing any damage. The mill dam is therefore all
right for another season, for it is only on the occasion of the ice going out in
the Spring, that the structure is in peril. However, the owner of the mill
privileges, J. L. Hudson, Esq. and Mr. Alex Clark, are usually provided against
such an emergency and have a supply of timber on hand ready for regular repair
work. It may interest the general reader to know that the Canton dam is 208 feet
long and 11 ½ feet high, and reaching across the Maquoketa River between banks
of solid rock and standing in a solid rock formation, has stood almost without
repairs for twenty-nine years.


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